Combined abdomen-compress and hose-supporter.



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UNITED STATES THOMAS P. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINED ABDOMEN-COMPRESS AND HOSE-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1908.

Application filed May 27, 1908. Serial No. 435,303.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Abdomen-Compress and Hose-Supporter; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improve ments in combined abdomen compresses and hose supporters, and has for its object to provide an abdomen compress which shall be so suspended and held in position by the combined action of the hose supporters and waist straps that a pressure will be effected inwardly and upwardly against the lowermost portion of the abdomen, the effect being to raise the abdomen so that it will receive the benefits of pressures brought about by the use of my improvement and also brought about by the corset itself.

With these end in View my invention consists in certain details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully explained and then particularly pointed out in the claim which concludes this description.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation showing my improvement in position on the corset. Fig. 2 an enlarged front view of my improvement in its preferred form. Fig. 3 a front elevation of the metal structure of my improvement. Fig. 4 a front elevation showing different ways of attaching the hose supporting webbings, Fig. 5 a front elevation of the metal structure of a modified form of my improvement. Fig. 6, a vertical central section of my improvement as it appears when in use on a corset, the latter being illustrated upon a human body shown in outline.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

I-Ieretofore, abdominal pads have been provided which have been held in position by means of suspension hooks attached to the stud of the corset clasp and straps secured around the waist of the wearer, while the hose supporter webbings have been suspended from the lower portion of the pad so as to hold the latter down under strain from the stockings to which said webbings are attached by means of suitable and ordinary clasps. In constructions of this sort the pad element has been given great prominence and has usually been made from some suitable fabric, and this element has preferably been suspended in such manner as to cover the upper central portion of the hypogastric region of the abdomen. The pressure created by pads constructed and suspended in this manner forces the abdomen inwardly and downwardly, the result being that there is a tendency to squeeze or roll the abdomen below the lower edge of the corset sections. There is comparatively little pressure at the lower front portion of the corset sections against the person of the wearer and therefore a pad suspended in the manner above set forth in front of the upper central portion of the hypogastric region of the abdomen cannot possibly combine with the corset in getting the best results.

My improvement as applied not only raises the abdomen under pressure but also combines with the corset in confining the abdomen under pressure, as will be clear from the following description 1 is a narrow spring steel strip having near the upper end a suitable opening 2 for the reception of the stud of a corset clasp, and to the lower extremity of this strip are secured the inner ends of spring steel strips or bands 3 which diverge in opposite direc tions, to the upper extremities of which bands 3 are respectively secured the buckle 4 and the waist strap 5.

Hose supporter webbings may be secured so as to depend from these bands 3 in any suitable manner. I prefer to envelop these bands 3 with a slight cloth structure (3 which has no function as an abdomen pad proper but is employed merely as a means for conveniently holding the hose supporters and the strips and bands 1, 3, in proper assembled position in a composite structure, and also as a means for covering the metal portions so that they will not come in contact with the corset sections or the trimmings thereof and discolor or mutilate them.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, I have shown this cloth structure 6 with the hose supporter webbings 7 depending therefrom and se cured by means of suitable stitching but these webbings may be secured in any suitable manner to the bands 3, and in Fig. t I have illustrated these webbings suspended by means of suitable fixtures 8 from one of the bands 3 while the other of said bands is covered by a skeleton cloth'structure 9 from which latter the webbings depend. It is therefore immaterial how the hose supporter webbings are suspended from the lateral bands 3, the gist of myinvention in this respect resting in the broad idea of the metal bands themselves and the depending hose supporters.

My improvement is attached to a stud of the corset clasp below the waist line, and owing to the fact that'the strip 1 is elongated the bands 3 will be held in suspension in front of the lower edge of the corset, if the corset is of medium length, or, in, other words, these bands are suspended directly in front of the lower central portion of the hypogastric region of the abdomen, and when the waist bands are tightened these bands 3 will be drawn inwardly and upwardly,

thereby forcing the strip 1 upwardly and causing it to bow outwardly, the effect being to create a firm pressure, against the corset and directed upwardly against the lowest portion of the abdomen. The hose supporters serve to keep the structure down, and in case the webbings are drawn fairly tight the strain on the stockings will contribute more or less toward the pressure which is directed against the abdomen.

The bowing outwardly of the strip 1 will of course cause its lower end to be forced inwardly against the lower portion of the corset, this pressure against this particular part of the corset being greatly augmented by the tightening. of the waist band and the consequent drawing of the bands 3 inwardly and upwardly. This pressure from the combined action of the strip and bands 1, 3, will force the abdomen upwardly thus squeezing it against that portion of the corset which tightly hugs the body below the waist line, and as the abdomen is thus confined under pressure between the corset and said bands, it follows that a most sanitary action is brought about since there can be no possible dropping of the abdomen or av tendency to roll the latter toward the lower edge of the corset.

In my preferred form of construction I have shown the lateral bands upwardly from the strip 1, and while I prefer this form it will be clear that nearly as good results may be obtained by diverging these bands in the opposite direction, and

therefore I have shown at Fig. 5 a construction wherein these bands 3 diverge clownwardly, and in this connection I would state that what I have heretofore said with re- 3 diverging spect to the use of a cloth structure applies with equal force to the at Fig. 5.

I prefer to make the waist band from broad heavy elastic webbing, because this gives the benefit of a pressure which, although firm, is nevertheless yielding.

My improvement will be readily appreciated when it is borne in mind that a corset is fitted to conform to the wearers body far, better than the usual abdominal pad, and it therefore follows that the pressure brought construction shown about by the use of my improvement will cause the corset to firmly hug the lower central portion of the hypogastric region and thereby sustain the abdomen and confine it, as above stated, under pressure, between the lower part of the corset and that portion below the waist line where the pressure'cre ated normally by the corset is comparatively great.

I do not wish to be limited to the width or to the number of laterally extending bands, since the latter may be varied in these respects, so long as they are suspended by the elongated strip in front of the lower central.

portion of the hypogastric region of the abdomen.

lVhile I prefer that thestrip l as well.

the bands 3 should. be made from thin sheet metal, I would say that the material of which said strip and bands are made might be celluloid, bone, horn, or, in fact any substance that has the necessary stiffness and resiliency, and I therefore do not Wish to be limited in this respect.

Having thus described my inventionv what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a device of the character described, a thin stiff resilient elongated strip, an abdo-. men compress carried by the lower extremity of said strip which latter at its upper end is adapted to be secured to a stud of a corset fastening. insuch manner that said compress will be suspended.immediately in front of the lower central portion of the hypogastric region of the abdomen, hose supporter straps depending from said compress, and a waist strap and fastening means carried by said compress.

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS P. TAYLOR. 

